While it won’t be usable by consumers, lots of businesses will happily scoop up the pieces for their own servers. Not only will a ton of demand vanish, but a ton of supply will appear at the same time.
Unlike with the GPU shortage, where the cryptomining gpus could be used by regular consumers, the datacenter ram and so on is not usable on personal computers. It is all going to be e-waste, and we will still have a shortage after the bubble burst.
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
eli@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah and the e-waste centers will clean up the hardware and resell it.
It’ll be a flood into the market. Supply and demand and all that.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
is datacenter ram really not usable on personal PC’s? I figured it was the same as consumer ram but with ECC features.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They’re using the new SOCAMM standard, which current consumer hardware can’t use.
It’s a different physical interface.
Whether it will end up coming to consumer grade motherboards… 🤷♂️
Pika@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
man that sucks.
GMac@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Well that sucks. I assumed the ram, ssds, hdds could be recycled into useful forms.
sobchak@programming.dev 5 hours ago
It’s possible someone would make it usable. A long time ago, I bought a laptop CPU that was soldered onto a board so it would go into a normal desktop socket. Guessing there was a glut of laptop CPUs at the time.